1. Cancer vaccine
Yes, topping the list of 15 most important medical discoveries of 2018 is a potential cure for cancer! A trial run on mice showed that the vaccine, administered by researches in Stanford University, completely destroyed any traces of cancer in an overwhelming majority of the mice in the trial, thereby paving the way for a human trial, and a potential cure to the worst disease in the world!

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